If there’s something that goes together even better than peanut butter and chocolate, it’s vampires and werewolves. Well, the smash hit One Night Werewolf has released a new, stand-alone version of the game entitled One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Vampire. Guess what it adds? For three to ten players, Vampire assigns various roles to all the players, including the vampire, cupid, the assassin, and more, then asking players to deduce who the vampire is. Adding everyone in there search are special powers that can be utilized to suss out the nefarious bloodsucker!

Tonto Cuore is all about the Manga cheesecake. Yes, the lady maids players are collecting in this deck building game are well endowed and scantily dressed, but, if you can look past that, the gameplay is superb. Tonto Cuore Oktoberfest is the newest expansion/stand-alone version of the game, containing over two hundred cards themed with drinking, schnitzel, and barroom songs! Combine the cards with the base game or play them alone, either way Oktoberfest is ready-to-play for two to four players!

Last weekend was the prerelease, so that means this weekend is the release of Oath of the Gatewatch, the newest set for Magic the Gathering. Expanding on and working in conjunction with the Battle for Zendikar set, Oath of the Gatewatch, like all new Magic releases, launches with assorted buying options. First up, the standard booster packs contains fifteen randomly assorted cards from the second. Second, Intro Packs provide a completely build sixty card deck and new booster packs, making it the perfect entry point for new players. Third, there are Fat Packs that contains nine booster packs, a full-art deck box, one hundred mana, a spin-down counter, and a booklet that lists all the cards in the set. By the way, the Fat Packs are already out of print and also contain full art lands, two factors that will cause them to rapidly increase in price!

Hardly a week goes by that there isn’t a new My Little Pony related item added to our shelves, and this week is not different.

Except, that this is THE. BEST. WEEK. EVER!

Double the Ponies with the newly released My Little Pony Monopoly game! Included within this MLP themed version of the famous board game are six pony figurines, including Apple Jack, Twilight Sparkle, and Rainbow Dash.

Or if Monopoly isn’t your style of Pony, then maybe the second set of MLP card sleeves will be more your speed. This set includes sleeves featuring Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Trixie.

Love Letter‘s so nice they remade it three times!

Legend of the Five Rings Love Letter is the newest special edition of the game, printed to a limited degree. Following the same mechanics of classic Love Letter, this L5R variation is set in the world of the Emerald Empire, complete with samurais vying for the hand of Iweko Miaka, the Imperial Princess.

The battle of the fittest has begun in the new Dominant Species Card Game!

Players via for survival within different types of species, including reptile, mammal, insect, arachnid, and bird, as well as different types of environments. After ten rounds, the player that has accumulated the most victory points by best surviving in the wilds of the Earth.

Rabidly anticipated, One Night: Ultimate Werewolf is finally, finally on shelves this week!

A faster paced, colorfully designed version of the classic Werewolf party game, One Night has players selecting a role from a dozen unique characters in an effort to discover who is the wolf among them. At each character’s aid are special abilities that assist them in discovering the wolf, but, beware, you only have a single night to do so!

-Luna’s clean style of artwork has famously accompanied all of his projects, and continues to here.

-While you may have heard of mail-order brides, they don’t commonly come with a USB input and a software package. Ada does.

-Love is just as difficult in the near future, it’s just between a man an an android.

Justice League of America v.1 HC (New 52)

-One Justice League book is not enough for Geoff Johns, he has to have two!

-Formed as a deterrent to the main Justice League, the JLA is a government sanctioned and run team lead by Steve Trevor and including Hawkman, Simone Baz Green Lantern, Stargirl, Vibe, Catwoman, Martian Manhunter, Katana, and Green Arrow.

-This hardcover edition collects the entire first storyline of the series, which features important information for the Forever Evil event currently in progress.

-If iconic DC characters like Superman and Wonder Woman aren’t your bag, then JLA‘s focus on character development, humor, and espionage action will deliver what you want!

Cataclysm: The Ultimates Last Stand #1 (of 5)

-Fresh off another Marvel mini-event (Battle for the Atom), Brian Michael Bendis once again takes control of the Ultimate universe to helm its own mini-event.

-Bendis began the Ultimate universe over ten years ago with Ultimate Spider-Man #1. Since then he has written that series for nearly a decade and a half. This may be his swan song.

-After Age of Ultron, the regular universe Galactus has crossed into the Ultimate universe and has just arrived at Earth.

-The rumors are that the Ultimate universe is coming to an end and that this will be its last story. Miles Morales, it has also been assumed, will be crossing into the regular universe at the end of this very series! Don’t miss out!

-Will these two wise guys manage to solve a grisly Hollywood murder without killing each other?

-Paul Smith, legendary artist who’s touched nearly every famous comic character from Fantastic Four to The Spirit, will be lending his pencils to this epic miniseries!

Tomorrowland #1

-The famous dance music festival, Tomorrowland, becomes a comic this Wednesday!

-Paul Jenkins, writer of Batman The Dark Knight and creator of The Sentry, is teaming with the newly relaunched Titan Comics to lay down some sweet words on this comic!

-During the festival, our world clashes with another, formerly unseen alternate realm, causing the festivals organizers to fight them off.

-Bubbly, bright artwork and sly humor make turn this book into 2013′s Fanboys vs. Zombies.

Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #1

-A restart of the popular Spider-Man team-up book, The Avenging Spider-Man.

-Former series writer and show runner for the Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes cartoon, Chris Yost, continues creative duties for this series.

-See how Otto deals with various Avengers issue in and issue out, often with lots of hitting and yelling.

-More of that Superior taste you can’t get enough of!

Hunger #1

-Is it the beginning of the end for the Ultimate Universe?

-After the events of Age of Ultron, the regular universe (616) version of Galactus has found his way into the Ultimate universe.

-His first task is going to be taking out the Ultimate Gah Lak Tus, so expect some giant purple people fights!

-This five issue miniseries will lead into Brian Michael Bendis’ just announced Ultimate Cataclysm miniseries later this year, which pits the entire Ultimate Universe against Galactus and may destroy the universe.

Always ready to pimp out Pulp customers who’ve got work coming out, the recently Kickstarted game Exile Sun has arrived on the shelves featuring an entire art design by Eric J. Carter. Eric has been a customer since our original location, building a reputation as a go-to artist for deck building games like Dominion and Eminent Domain. Exile Sun is, as well, a deck-builder, but with a ticking-clock twist. At the end of each player’s turn, after they’ve finished, they progress a ticker on a special timer track, activating special events for the game as players progress.

Apparently the name Ultimate Werewolf was a misnomer as there are two new expansion packs out for the famous party game, making it more ultimate-er than before. The first is Ultimate Werewolf Artifacts, which adds forty artifact cards to the deck, completely changing the method of play. Now, instead of simply having a character designation (human or werewolf) each player also possesses an artifact that gives them special abilities and motivations. The second, Ultimate Werewolf Inquisition is a standalone version of the original game with some altered rules for a smaller group play.

Trick taking games becomes a TICK taking in You Suck.

Players take turns laying down cards from a suited deck onto special tick cards, each granting special abilities to each player. These bids will earn you even more points and abilities based on whether your bid is matched or not, gaining the player the possibility of earning a unique tick card.

If you’ve built up your stable of creature miniatures for Pathfinder, you may want to add an extra wing on it for the triplicate of dragons in the White Dragon Evolution set. As you can see in the picture, this set includes the three growth stages of the legendary White Dragon. Basically, the White Album of Pathfinder, this set will go down in history and away from shelves very shortly.

Finally, the big product for the evening, the release of Magic the Gathering’s newest Core Set, 2014. As per usual, the release of a new set is accompanied by a veritable range of ways to purchase cards. These include, Deck Builder’s Toolkits (the best value to get into Magic), Fat Packs (a 9 booster box set), Intro Decks (pre-build decks and two boosters), and, of course, booster packs in a variety of languages (English, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and Korean).

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